Earl Van Dyke & The Funk Brothers - The Flick (Pts. 1 & 2) The excellent 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown finally...

Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants - I'm Coming, Coming, I'm Coming Bobby Byrd, like Scottie Pippen, was one of those right-hand men whose glory...

Bill Cosby - Hold On I'm A-Comin' I'll refer you to my earlier post about the funky sides of Bill Cosby for more info about the...

Rufus Thomas - Chicken Scratch No one could do a novelty soul/funk record like Rufus Thomas. Be it popularizing some kind of dance or rappi...

Albert Collins - Do the Sissy The late blues legend Albert Collins was known as "The Iceman," and for good reason: besides Collin...

Gloria Spencer - I Got It Gospel singer Gloria Spencer was billed (and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ) as "The World...

Joe Tex: You Said a Bad Word b/w It Ain't Gonna Work Baby Soul master Joe Tex had a knack for being goofier than many of his contempora...

Mystery Tune - Does anyone have any ideas re: title and/or artist? Jimmy Armstrong - Mystery I started collecting tapes of old R&B airc...

Jean Knight - A Little Bit of Something (Is Better Than All of Nothing) The jaunty, reggae-tinged funk and sassy lyrics of Jean Knight's...

Joe Simon - Step By Step By 1971 Joe Simon had established himself as the country soul artist with no peer (well, Joe Tex or Solomon Burke m...

Jimmy Lewis - The Girls From Texas Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Lewis' most prolific period as a recording artist came in the last decad...

Gene Chandler - In My Body's House When Constellation Records folded in 1966 or so the company sold Gene Chandler's contract to Ches...